Written in muscular prose with superlative original plotting, PD18 is the little-known true story about 32 design students who are commonly thought of as the best Product Design graduates, in Westchester, in 2018. Visceral, gutsy, panoramic, and soaring, this thriller-cum-bildungsroman slowly builds the finely drawn characters while an agile and brisque high-concept plot twists and turns like the Transfăgărășan.

Also, a very heavy chair.